Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure with minimal antithrombotic treatment in patients at very high risk of bleeding events

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lund, Juha ^a   Saraste, Antti ^a   Airaksinen, K E Juhani ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; DABIGATRAN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ALLERGY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA DISSECTION; BLADDER BLEEDING; BLEEDING; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHROMBOCYTOPENIA; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE; LETTER; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865217747     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: 18792472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2012.05.013     Document Type: Letter

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